Table of Biography
Christina Sharkey Geist is a New York-based brand Strategist, Entrepreneur, and Children’s Book Author. Likewise, Christina Sharkey Geist is known for her books including Buddy’s Bedtime Battery, Sorry Grown-ups, and You Can’t Go to School! which was even listed as number 4 on the New York Times bestseller list.
Early Life
Christina Sharkey was born and grew up in Ridgewood, New Jersey US. She is about 47 years old as of now and hasn’t opened up much about herself in public yet. Her full birth name is Christina Elena Sharkey. Though she hasn’t talked much about her family she belongs to a very loud, Loving family that makes mean chicken parm.
Similarly, she holds American Nationality and is of Causation Ethnicity. Her sexual orientation is straight. She is a very family person and loves to spend her time with family. There is not much information about her parents and siblings.
Christina Sharkey Geist sharing her childhood memories with her sibling (Source: Instagram)
Talking about her educational status she was a very delightful student. She completed her graduation from the University of Vanderbilt with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Political Science. In addition, she completed her minors in Psychology and history in the same year 1997.
Christina Sharkey Geist – Net Worth 2024
Christina Sharkey Geist has earned much worth over a year with an estimated net worth of around 6 million dollars as of 2022. Her primary source of income is her career as an entrepreneur and a brand strategist including her assets, money, and her income. Moreover, she has received an average salary of around $2.5 million per year. After all these years she has to gather the fortune to live a happy and healthy lifestyle.
Professional Career
Christina Sharkey Geist has successfully started her career as a brand strategist, author, and Entrepreneur. Before everything, she began her career in journalism after completing her graduation from Vanderbilt University. After that, she shifted her career toward public relations and began to work with Interbrand from 2004 to 2006.
In the year 2007, she joined Johnson and Johnson as the director of design strategy position till 2010. Later in 2015, in February 2015 she co-founded True Geist; a strategic design and branding firm alongside Todd True. They work together where Christina is the strategy director and Todd is the creative director.
Moreover, she is the founder and CEO of Boombox Gift an Online Boutique for bespoke premium. It was launched in September 2015 and provides services of personalized memory boxes, filled custom-printed photos, and written messages from friends and families. This memory box idea came to her mind after she and her friend were going through the memory box one day. After that, she thought of making one for her father’s 70th birthday as well.
After that, she thought of creating a company that helps customers build their boom boxes. Likewise, in this, the customers can choose a box style, add optional invites, upload photos, and add messages. Also one can invite their friends and family to share their lives and contributions before sending it out.
Christina Sharkey Geist promoting the offer of gifts from Boombox(Source: Instagram)
More Details
In Addition, she is also one of the best children’s authors. Her first venture in this field was Buddy’s Bedtime Battery which was published on 2016 September 27. The book was published by Penguin Random House and illustrated by Tim Bowers. The main character o the boo is Buddy who imagines his life as a part of the Robot Family. This book was inspired by her life struggle to keep her children safe and asleep.
Likewise, her next book was Sorry Grown Ups, You Can’t Go to School! and published around July 16, 2019. This is a very interesting book for the children to emphasize their on going to school. It provides knowledge to the children with the help of pictures and gets them excited about going to school. Buddy’s New Buddy is her newest book in the town and is one of the bestselling children’s picture books in New York. It hit the eye of the public on 2022, July 21. This focuses on the story of going to school and exploring new friends more like a franchise of her first book.
Relationship Status
She is married to Willie Geist an American television personality and journalist who is co-anchor of MSNBC’s Morning Joe and anchor of ‘Sunday Today with Willie Geist. Likewise, they were teenage lovers and met in sixth grade while studying at Ridgewood’s George Washington Middle School. But during their senior, they planned on going their separate ways as Geistt went to Vanderbilt and Christina went to the University of Virginia.
But Christina Sharkey Geist was on the waiting list so she thought of going back to Vanderbilt. Later, after graduation, Willie moved to Atlanta for work but Christina didn’t later after 2 years they got back together. They tied the knot in May 2003 in Humacao, Puerto Rico after Willie proposed to her, and are together till now. In Addition, they have a son and a daughter named George William Geist and Lucie Joy Geist.
Christina Sharkey Geist posing with her husband and kids(Source: Instagram)
Body Measurements
There are not many details about her body measurements and status but she is a beautiful woman with a humble personality. She has short hair and a lovely face. She has not shared much information about her body status.
Christina Sharkey Geist – Social Media
Talking about her social media she has inspired quite a lot of people through her tremendous life journey. She has many followers on her social media account with around 28.6k followers on Instagram. Similarly, she has around 28.4k followers on Twitter and the count is still increasing.